Women in Pakistan or the power of patriarchy
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https://doi.org/10.18172/brocar.1607Keywords:
Mechanisms of Patriarchy, androcentric social rules, gender ideology, sexual rules,Abstract
This paper highlights some cultural aspects of Pakistan which affect women, as a better knowledge of these aspects helps to improve our understanding of the strong discriminatory practices that these women suffer. We seek to explain the mechanisms used by Pakistani society to perpetuate the subjection of women. Sexual division of labour and the imposition of sexist patterns in education, labour market and participation in politics are the main restrictions applied to women, which are thus kept in a subordinate position. This social disadvantage is reinforced from the power, mainly exerted by men, and its defence and legitimization of traditional sexual roles, which burden the emancipation of women. Patriarchal rules are thus reproduced in order to guarantee the subordination of Pakistani women.Downloads
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